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On March 20 2016 11:13 Jerubaal wrote:
Is there anything I can do to lose a bit of fat? It's counterproductive to sprint or play basketball on offdays when you're lifting right? I know a big part of the answer is "stop eating crap", but it tastes so good.
Anyone have any suggestions for what sort of diet I could do to lose a few pounds while not stopping my lifting or are those two contradictory things?
Do as much as you can that doesn't interfere with your lifting.
Currently closing on my 2nd month of Crossfit and finally, after 5-6 years, I have a 6 pack lol.
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Just drop some calories, maintain high protein in your diet. Intermittant fasting still seems to be the go to method for preserving lean mass through a diet (if you wanna get nitty).
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On March 20 2016 11:34 GoTuNk! wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2016 11:13 Jerubaal wrote:
Is there anything I can do to lose a bit of fat? It's counterproductive to sprint or play basketball on offdays when you're lifting right? I know a big part of the answer is "stop eating crap", but it tastes so good.
Anyone have any suggestions for what sort of diet I could do to lose a few pounds while not stopping my lifting or are those two contradictory things? Do as much as you can that doesn't interfere with your lifting. Currently closing on my 2nd month of Crossfit and finally, after 5-6 years, I have a 6 pack lol.
Do you have any suggestions for a good plyometric workout that's not too weight heavy? My gym has some good equipment, medicine balls and such.
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On March 21 2016 06:53 Jerubaal wrote:Show nested quote +On March 20 2016 11:34 GoTuNk! wrote:On March 20 2016 11:13 Jerubaal wrote:
Is there anything I can do to lose a bit of fat? It's counterproductive to sprint or play basketball on offdays when you're lifting right? I know a big part of the answer is "stop eating crap", but it tastes so good.
Anyone have any suggestions for what sort of diet I could do to lose a few pounds while not stopping my lifting or are those two contradictory things? Do as much as you can that doesn't interfere with your lifting. Currently closing on my 2nd month of Crossfit and finally, after 5-6 years, I have a 6 pack lol. Do you have any suggestions for a good plyometric workout that's not too weight heavy? My gym has some good equipment, medicine balls and such.
I really like box jumps after squats or deadlifts to begin. EMOM style, no need to kill yourself. Just break a sweat for 10-15 mins.
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Anyone ever dealt with chest pain in the lock-out part of ohp? Around the sternum. Also started to feel it when doing chin-ups with full rom.
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On March 21 2016 18:30 Fwmeh wrote:
Anyone ever dealt with chest pain in the lock-out part of ohp? Around the sternum. Also started to feel it when doing chin-ups with full rom.
Is it different from regular soreness? Sometimes I'll get soreness around my sternum (especially if I did dips recently), so it could be that you're just feeling that at the top of OHP/bottom of a chin-up. You also could have slightly bruised it if you were benching and lowered the weight a bit too quickly or bounced it off your chest. I don't know what else it could be though.
My cut is also going pretty well. I'm down to 151.5 lbs after starting at 163 on March 1. I'm home for spring break so counting calories is a bit tougher, but my progress has been so much better than I thought it would be that it doesn't matter if I gain back a pound or two.
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On March 21 2016 22:33 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 18:30 Fwmeh wrote:
Anyone ever dealt with chest pain in the lock-out part of ohp? Around the sternum. Also started to feel it when doing chin-ups with full rom. Is it different from regular soreness? Sometimes I'll get soreness around my sternum (especially if I did dips recently), so it could be that you're just feeling that at the top of OHP/bottom of a chin-up. You also could have slightly bruised it if you were benching and lowered the weight a bit too quickly or bounced it off your chest. I don't know what else it could be though. My cut is also going pretty well. I'm down to 151.5 lbs after starting at 163 on March 1. I'm home for spring break so counting calories is a bit tougher, but my progress has been so much better than I thought it would be that it doesn't matter if I gain back a pound or two.
Please begin gaining weight 
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mtl is pretty short iirc but yeah, more muscle on everyone!
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On March 21 2016 22:33 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 18:30 Fwmeh wrote:
Anyone ever dealt with chest pain in the lock-out part of ohp? Around the sternum. Also started to feel it when doing chin-ups with full rom. Is it different from regular soreness? Sometimes I'll get soreness around my sternum (especially if I did dips recently), so it could be that you're just feeling that at the top of OHP/bottom of a chin-up. You also could have slightly bruised it if you were benching and lowered the weight a bit too quickly or bounced it off your chest. I don't know what else it could be though. My cut is also going pretty well. I'm down to 151.5 lbs after starting at 163 on March 1. I'm home for spring break so counting calories is a bit tougher, but my progress has been so much better than I thought it would be that it doesn't matter if I gain back a pound or two.
Not like regular soreness and and definitely nothing bruised. More like the pain you could have in a joint before it "pops".
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On March 22 2016 02:05 mordek wrote:
mtl is pretty short iirc but yeah, more muscle on everyone!
I'm in the 50th percentile for women...
Once I have visible abs I'll start a slow bulk (maybe 2 lbs per month for 6-8 months?) and try to get up to 155-160 lbs while maintaining abs. According to the maximum muscle calculators, I could only get up to about 160 lbs at 10% body fat. I don't care to be that lean necessarily, but I'd like to stay in the 12-15% body fat range.
I also recently started PHAT and I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm on my second week and I'm feeling really good. I've had to take a lot of time off from lifting in general between high school and minor injuries, but I think 2016 is going to be a really good year in general and I think I can make some decent progress in regards to my lifting. Being away from home has been amazing for me mentally, physically, and emotionally and aside from a few setbacks things have been going exceedingly well.
And if anyone wants to see how little progress I've made, here's a progress pic (sorry for the poor quality and large image size):
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Those arms/shoulders are looking good though  Keep at it!
Honestly I'd probably be doing the same thing if I were you.
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On March 22 2016 02:16 Fwmeh wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 22:33 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:On March 21 2016 18:30 Fwmeh wrote:
Anyone ever dealt with chest pain in the lock-out part of ohp? Around the sternum. Also started to feel it when doing chin-ups with full rom. Is it different from regular soreness? Sometimes I'll get soreness around my sternum (especially if I did dips recently), so it could be that you're just feeling that at the top of OHP/bottom of a chin-up. You also could have slightly bruised it if you were benching and lowered the weight a bit too quickly or bounced it off your chest. I don't know what else it could be though. My cut is also going pretty well. I'm down to 151.5 lbs after starting at 163 on March 1. I'm home for spring break so counting calories is a bit tougher, but my progress has been so much better than I thought it would be that it doesn't matter if I gain back a pound or two. Not like regular soreness and and definitely nothing bruised. More like the pain you could have in a joint before it "pops".
My brother got a small fracture in his sternum and it took quite a while to heal so be careful with that.
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I fucked my sternum up with dips and that still feels bad whenever I do them, doesn't affect my ohp though.
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On March 21 2016 08:06 GoTuNk! wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 06:53 Jerubaal wrote:On March 20 2016 11:34 GoTuNk! wrote:On March 20 2016 11:13 Jerubaal wrote:
Is there anything I can do to lose a bit of fat? It's counterproductive to sprint or play basketball on offdays when you're lifting right? I know a big part of the answer is "stop eating crap", but it tastes so good.
Anyone have any suggestions for what sort of diet I could do to lose a few pounds while not stopping my lifting or are those two contradictory things? Do as much as you can that doesn't interfere with your lifting. Currently closing on my 2nd month of Crossfit and finally, after 5-6 years, I have a 6 pack lol. Do you have any suggestions for a good plyometric workout that's not too weight heavy? My gym has some good equipment, medicine balls and such. I really like box jumps after squats or deadlifts to begin. EMOM style, no need to kill yourself. Just break a sweat for 10-15 mins.
Sorry, what timing do you use? I tried doing 1 minute on 1 minute off but that just killed me. Not sure if I should scale back or if them's just the learning curve. Part of the problem of being an out of shape "athlete"; my mind knows how to give max effort but my body cant' keep up.
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On March 22 2016 11:04 Jerubaal wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2016 08:06 GoTuNk! wrote:On March 21 2016 06:53 Jerubaal wrote:On March 20 2016 11:34 GoTuNk! wrote:On March 20 2016 11:13 Jerubaal wrote:
Is there anything I can do to lose a bit of fat? It's counterproductive to sprint or play basketball on offdays when you're lifting right? I know a big part of the answer is "stop eating crap", but it tastes so good.
Anyone have any suggestions for what sort of diet I could do to lose a few pounds while not stopping my lifting or are those two contradictory things? Do as much as you can that doesn't interfere with your lifting. Currently closing on my 2nd month of Crossfit and finally, after 5-6 years, I have a 6 pack lol. Do you have any suggestions for a good plyometric workout that's not too weight heavy? My gym has some good equipment, medicine balls and such. I really like box jumps after squats or deadlifts to begin. EMOM style, no need to kill yourself. Just break a sweat for 10-15 mins. Sorry, what timing do you use? I tried doing 1 minute on 1 minute off but that just killed me. Not sure if I should scale back or if them's just the learning curve. Part of the problem of being an out of shape "athlete"; my mind knows how to give max effort but my body cant' keep up.
I remember I started by doing 5 box jumps per minute (lol). I could prolly do 15-20 now for a long time.
You need to learn to string them together to do anything more than 10 per minute.
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I feel like I'm proof that you need to have fat to gain. I could never gain muscle when I was skinny and now that I'm fat, I'm making mad gainz.
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On March 23 2016 11:55 Jerubaal wrote:
I feel like I'm proof that you need to have fat to gain. I could never gain muscle when I was skinny and now that I'm fat, I'm making mad gainz.
I made some of my best strength gains while dropping from a soft 210 to much leaner 195. There's anecdotes to argue pretty much any side.
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Pretty much everyone here below 200 lbs complaining about being a hard gainer could stand to lose their sick six pack for a year or a couple years to make some real muscle gains. You gotta put in real time under heavy weight to build muscle, and then you can coast on it later in life with a sick six pack and muscle that stays on your frame.
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On March 23 2016 12:33 IgnE wrote:
Pretty much everyone here below 200 lbs complaining about being a hard gainer could stand to lose their sick six pack for a year or a couple years to make some real muscle gains. You gotta put in real time under heavy weight to build muscle, and then you can coast on it later in life with a sick six pack and muscle that stays on your frame.
I will second this opinion (190 for the shorter among us :p)
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I'd need to gain 17kg for 200 lbs. No thx bro I don't want buy a new wardrobe again.
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